Para in Greek language means 'beyond'. Normal is an English word meaning 'ordinary'. Hence paranormal means 'beyond ordinary. The very meaning of paranormal indicates some mystery not susceptible to present day science. There are many branches to paranormal situations. This deals with study of psychic phenomena. This deals with out of body experiences (O B E), near death experences(NDE),reincarnation, predictions, intuition , hypnosis and strange dreams, etc.
OUT OF BODY EXPERIENCES (O B E):
Under OBE, the soul seperates itself from materialistic body and moves independently. Most people who experience OBE can be seen by others at places where the soul moves independent of the body after seperation from body. The soul can join the body later.
NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE (N D E):
N D E is similar to O B E, wherein soul seperates from body, but occurs at the point of death. There are several reports from people that they have seen their body from above before moving on through a tunnel at the end of which they see light. But later the soul returns to body. Due to enormous stress and strain resulting from injury or illness, a person may be unconscious. The unconscious person at times feels leaving his body, and witnesses the seen from a different height. He can even see the treatment given to his body. When the body recovers the soul can reenter the body. Such souls can even verify what they have seen after reentering the body.
REINCARNATION:
After the soul is seperated from a body after the death, the soul can be reborn into any other physical body, as the soul has no death. In recent years there are several examples of people remembering their past lives. In 1930 a four year girl by name Shanti Devi from Delhi declared that she lived in a village Muttra in her past birth with the name Ludgi. When she was taken to the village she even recognised her relatives and her story was found to be true. There are many such examples.
PREDICTIONS:
There are people who predict the future of an individual, future of a country and the future of the world as a whole. For predicting the future of a man Astrology is the main subject that deals with the human reactions to planetary vibrations. Some even predict by developing mental powers. They can look into the future of a person or a country by clairvoyant powers. Nostradamus predictions are very famous worldwide. But unfortunately he has not given any specific dates for his predictions for the reasons known to him only. These predictions were recognised after they were fulfilled. There are many such prophets all over the world.
INTUITION:
Intuition is knowing information without any definite source. This information might be received telepathically or subconsciously. The people with intuition are at a loss to explain as to how they acquired the knowledge. This intuition fails under test conditions.
HYPNOSIS:
Hypnosis is a trancelike condition. It is like sleep, but not exactly so. Under hypnosis, person is more open to suggestion than in awaken state. Austrian doctor Franz Mesmer was the first to investigate hypnotism in 1770 and he called it as "animal magnetism". Hypnotism was used for medical purposes especially to reduce pain. Hypnotism was also used for investigation of past lives. Meditation may lead to self hypnosis that can cure unknown diseases within us. Any deep and concentrated thought (feeling) may also hypnotise the person towards whom it is directed.
DREAMS:
Man is trying to find some meaning for dreams since some thousands of years. Some dreams are pleasant, while others are terrifying. Some dreams contain people and places known to the dreamer, while others are of opposite nature. Dreams are symbolic. Lucid dreaming is most studied. In lucid dreaming, the individual is aware that he is dreaming during the dream and the dream is well remembered after awakening. Some dreams are informative such as the accident ahead. I personally had such dream that saved my life beyond any doubt.
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EVOLUTION OF LIFE ON EARTH
About 4600 million years ago, the planet earth was formed from dust and gas. It was full of poisonous gases with no food to eat and hence with no living things. It seems as per theory, that every living thing came out of a common ancestor that lived long ago. Though living things have different genes, they have all inherited the same genetic code to make those genes work.
Evolution is a theory that living things change from generation to generation with a change in the genetic composition with time and change in climatic conditions. The ingredients in the formation of life are water, carbon dioxide, methane and ammonia. Lighting or ultraviolet radiation might have changed these chemicals into amino acids, which are the building blocks of proteins, which constitute living things, mainly. Evolution theory was first given by Charles Darwin and others in 1850s. According to Darwinsm, the natural selection is the mechanism of evolution. Living things slowly changed and evolved into different species over millions of years.
About 3800 million years ago, first life appeared consisting of primitive single-celled organisms. 3300 million years back, the first simple plants, algae apeared in oceans. About 700 million years ago first water animals such as worms, jelly fish (multicellular animals) appeared. 450 million years back first fish (first vertebrate) appeared in the oceans. 410 million years ago first plants appeared on land. About 230 million years back early dinosaurs moved on earth. 60 million years ago the first large mammals emerged. About 14 million years ago, early apes appeared. During the period of 10000 years to 1.8 million years back, early modern man emerged in Africa.
No one has seen prehistoric animals such as dinosaurs. But we know about them sufficiently from their fossils, resulting from their bones burried in mud or sand million years ago and then turned to rock by natural chemical process.
A large part of life cannot be seen with naked eye. It can only be viewed through a microscope. Besides plants, animals and bacteria, fungi (mushrooms and toadstools) is another type of life, looking like plants, but grow by absorbing food instead of by using sunlight.
All living things are connected to each other. Plants get energy from sunlight. Animals eat these plants as their livelihood. Some animals eat each other and live. When animals and plants die, bacteria and fungi break them down. And recycling starts. This process is ecology.
Evolution is a theory that living things change from generation to generation with a change in the genetic composition with time and change in climatic conditions. The ingredients in the formation of life are water, carbon dioxide, methane and ammonia. Lighting or ultraviolet radiation might have changed these chemicals into amino acids, which are the building blocks of proteins, which constitute living things, mainly. Evolution theory was first given by Charles Darwin and others in 1850s. According to Darwinsm, the natural selection is the mechanism of evolution. Living things slowly changed and evolved into different species over millions of years.
About 3800 million years ago, first life appeared consisting of primitive single-celled organisms. 3300 million years back, the first simple plants, algae apeared in oceans. About 700 million years ago first water animals such as worms, jelly fish (multicellular animals) appeared. 450 million years back first fish (first vertebrate) appeared in the oceans. 410 million years ago first plants appeared on land. About 230 million years back early dinosaurs moved on earth. 60 million years ago the first large mammals emerged. About 14 million years ago, early apes appeared. During the period of 10000 years to 1.8 million years back, early modern man emerged in Africa.
No one has seen prehistoric animals such as dinosaurs. But we know about them sufficiently from their fossils, resulting from their bones burried in mud or sand million years ago and then turned to rock by natural chemical process.
A large part of life cannot be seen with naked eye. It can only be viewed through a microscope. Besides plants, animals and bacteria, fungi (mushrooms and toadstools) is another type of life, looking like plants, but grow by absorbing food instead of by using sunlight.
All living things are connected to each other. Plants get energy from sunlight. Animals eat these plants as their livelihood. Some animals eat each other and live. When animals and plants die, bacteria and fungi break them down. And recycling starts. This process is ecology.
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE
To our present knowledge, life is available only on Earth. The planet earth along with its atmosphere and oceans and climate provide great facilities for the creation of life. The aspect whether there is life anywhere in the universe is under consideration by astronomers and scientists.
Earth is a planet in the solar system and revolves around the Sun, which is only an average star. There are billions of stars in the universe, some are bigger and more aged than the sun. Some of these stars have planets circling them. AT least some of them might be having similar conditions as on earth which support emergence of life. The universe contains about 100,000 million galaxies and many of them contain about 100,000 million stars. But it is difficult to examine the availability of life on such planets, with limited scope from earth. Such planets are several thousand light years from earth. ( one light year is the distance travelled by light in one year at the rate of 300,000 kilometers per second). As such it is at present impossible for us to examine the possibility of life in other places, even if life exists in other places in the universe. If life exists in planets having superior life period, they should be definitely superior beings than us.
Astronomers and scientists are for years busily engaged in the search for extra terrestrial intelligence (SETI) since 1960. Atrophysisists and radio astronomers are trying to intercept signals from extra terrestrial beings using powerful radio telescopes. Some believe that they have come into contact with aliens. They say that these extra galactic creatures are already among us, and we are unable to prove the same due to our limited understanding and resources.
There are several appearances of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) since a long time. There are even instances that even aeroplanes also followed to investigate them, but they could not match their speed. There are also reports from several human beings that they were taken into the UFOs and they were tested and then left back on earth. Even lie detector tests were performed on such reporters and the results were positive. Some assume that these flying sausers carry extra terrestrial aliens who are far superior to us in technoligy. Only we have to wait and see with some hope of extra terrestrial beings to come into contact with us in the near future, with our developement in technology.
Earth is a planet in the solar system and revolves around the Sun, which is only an average star. There are billions of stars in the universe, some are bigger and more aged than the sun. Some of these stars have planets circling them. AT least some of them might be having similar conditions as on earth which support emergence of life. The universe contains about 100,000 million galaxies and many of them contain about 100,000 million stars. But it is difficult to examine the availability of life on such planets, with limited scope from earth. Such planets are several thousand light years from earth. ( one light year is the distance travelled by light in one year at the rate of 300,000 kilometers per second). As such it is at present impossible for us to examine the possibility of life in other places, even if life exists in other places in the universe. If life exists in planets having superior life period, they should be definitely superior beings than us.
Astronomers and scientists are for years busily engaged in the search for extra terrestrial intelligence (SETI) since 1960. Atrophysisists and radio astronomers are trying to intercept signals from extra terrestrial beings using powerful radio telescopes. Some believe that they have come into contact with aliens. They say that these extra galactic creatures are already among us, and we are unable to prove the same due to our limited understanding and resources.
There are several appearances of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) since a long time. There are even instances that even aeroplanes also followed to investigate them, but they could not match their speed. There are also reports from several human beings that they were taken into the UFOs and they were tested and then left back on earth. Even lie detector tests were performed on such reporters and the results were positive. Some assume that these flying sausers carry extra terrestrial aliens who are far superior to us in technoligy. Only we have to wait and see with some hope of extra terrestrial beings to come into contact with us in the near future, with our developement in technology.
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